Fountain attachment for wash-boilers



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G W. DAY.

. FOUNTAIN ATTACHMENT FOR WASH BOILERS. No. 399,845. Patented Mar. 19, 18189.

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GEORGE TVASllIN GTON DAY, OF LANSTN i, KANSAS.

FOUNTAIN ATTACHMENT FOR WASH-BOILERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,845, dated March 19, 1889.

Application filed October 18, 1888.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE \VAsHING-TON DAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lansing, in the county of Leavenworth and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fountain Attachments for \Vash-Boilers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will. enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to wasli-boilers of that class wherein acirculation of water through the clothes is effected, the hot water at bottom of boiler being raised by the generation of steam and poured in a cascade over theclothes in the boiler; and it has for its object to provide a simple, durable, and effective apparatus of the class named in which a central heating-chamber is isolated from the points at which the returning current. first enters the channels leading to said central chamber and is thoroughly heated again before entering said chamber on its way to the outlet-tube; and it consists of the parts and combinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, is illustrated a perspective view of my device, looking at the bottom or lower part ofthe same.

A represents the base-plate of the apparatus, of such size and form as to lit the interior of a boiler; and B, a flange secured to the edge of said plate in any desired manner and extending downwardly therefrom and forming the outer wall of channels a and b, the inner walls of said channels being formed by the curved partitions c and d. The channels a and b are separated by short partitions e, which extend across the center of the plateA from each. side to the straight partitions f, which extend lengthwise the plate and form the walls of the heating-chamber. At each end the partitions f are cut away or reduced, as at g, and a short channel, h, is formed between said partitions and the curved partitions c and (Z. The ends of the curved partitions do not extend to the partitions c, a space or opening being left between them, so

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that connnunication may be had between the channels a and 71 All of the partitions are of the same width as the flanges 15, so that when the device is in position in a boiler the channels (I, b, and 72 are practically closed passages which only comn'iunieate through the openings at the ends of the curved partitions. By this construction a large chamber is provided at the center of the device, where the bulk of the water will. be heated and the steam generated, communication with which. can only be had from the channels by the contracted openings formed by the reduced ends of the straight partitions f. From the center of the base-plate A a tube, C, projects, having a cross-tube, 1), at its end, and at each end of the device a series of perforations, E, is formed in the channels a and I) through the baseplate, through which the Water finds its way to said channels. The cross-tube D is telescoped on tube 0 and may be adjusted in or out. as desired, as indicated by dotted lines in the drawing.

In operation the apparatus is fitted accurately within a wash-boiler about two-thirds filled with water, soap added, and the clothes placed on top of the device and pressed down. When the boiler thus prepared is placed upon a hot the and the water brought to the boiling-point, the steam generated will find its escape from the central chamber through the tube L, and when sufficiently strong it forces a the water along with great rapidity through said tube and out on the clothes. The supply of water to the central space for the generation of the steam is kept up by the water in the boiler passing through the perforations E into channels a and Z) and along the same into the channels 71, and from thence through the openings at the ends of the straight partitions f into the chamber.

It will be noticed that the water is returned to the apparatus at the greatest distance from the central tube, thus causing it to more a lon distance over the highly-heated bottom of the boiler before entering the chamber, and thus becoming heated and making a greater supply of steam and produein a more rapid current of water. The cross-tube l) maybe drawn out in order to increase the distance the water must travel through the clothes in order to return to the apparatus, and thus hasten the process of cleansing.

The arrangement of the partitions is intended to prevent the escape of the steam through any other exit than the tube 0; but should any steam escape from the heatingchamber to channel h it will be met by the current of water entering said channel, and must force the same back through the somewhat complex passage formed by the channels and overcome the weight of water entering the same through the perforations E before it can change the direction of the current. The reduction of the ends of the partitions f at g admits a flow of water into the heatingchamber, but retards a counteraction in the downward current, as the heated water rising meets the obstruction formed by the end of the partitions f and naturally finds its way to the tube 0.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the base-plate having the perforations therethrough near its ends, the flange secured to the edge of said plate, the curved partitions c and cl, the short partitions e, the straight partitions f, having their ends reduced, the tube 0, and the crosstube telescoped on said tube 0, substantially l as described.

l i presence of two witnesses.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 

